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Holocaust Lives On in Memory and Fact

Have I missed something? Tina Rosenberg (Editorial Notebook, March 3) claims that Britain knew in 1941 that the Nazis were exterminating Jews in the Soviet Union, ''yet London said and did nothing.''

''Did nothing''? My recollection as a child in London in 1941 was that we were fighting day to day in a desperate struggle to withstand and defeat Hitler. I sense a tendency to ignore the sacrifices that Britain and also France made in the fight against Hitler. We lost people, we lost wealth and, in the case of France, pride was lost, too.

Reading daily in your newspaper about the Holocaust and Nazi gold, I feel that we may lose sight of the fact that World War II was a glorious crusade that eliminated the Nazi evil. We lost lives, we lost gold and we won.